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Greg Chism


Education

Ph.D. Entomology and Insect Science (minor in EEB)

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022 - 2017

  • Advisor: Dr. Anna Dornhaus
  • Interdisciplinary research into how ant nest shapes affects how they behave
  • Considered the implications towards animal behavior and human architecture fields

B.S. Zoology

University of California Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA

2016 - 2014

  • Advisors: Drs. Armand Kuris, Kevin Laugherty, Jonathan Pruitt
  • Investigation into the food web of sandy beach arthropods.
  • Probing animal personality of sandy beach jumping spiders and social spiders
  • Graduated distinction within major (EEMB)

A.A. Biology

Shasta Community College

Redding, CA

2014 - 2012

Certifications

Data Carpentries Instructor

The Carpentries

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Trained to provide high quality data science workshops that are inclusive and broad reaching

Teaching and Mentorship

Data Science Fellows

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • Educated health and biomedical postdocs in open science in a program that developed, exchanged, and created data science expertise

Roots for Resilience (R4R)

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • Educated senior grad students across several disciplines to use data science techniques to encourage discoveries within their domains

Research Compendium Using GitHub and RStudio

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • Created and taught a workshop series on reproducuble research compendium using GitHub and RStudio
  • Created a companion Quarto book for asynchronous learners

Exploratory Data Analysis in R Workshop Series

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • Created and taught a workshop series on exploratory data analysis using the dlookr R package
  • Created a companion Quarto book for asynchronous learners

KEYS Program Educator

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • Created and implemented an interactive Open Science and Machine Learning Curriculum for Title I high school seniors
  • Taught introduction to R/RStudio utilyzing RStudio Cloud

Undergraduate Research Mentor

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2020 - 2018

  • Nine students mentored in producing publication quality data
  • Two students are coauthors on publications

Insect Discovery Teaching Assistant

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2019 - 2018

  • Taught insect science K-8 title I students from the Southwest through four on-campus workshops
  • Gave on-site interactive demonstrations on insect science at the Flandrau Planetarium

KEYS High School Student Mentor

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2019

  • Mentored an advanced high school student in data etiquette and hypothesis testing

SARSEF High School Student Mentor

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2018

  • Mentored three high school students in data etiquette and hypothesis testing

Professional Development

Foundational Open Science Skills (FOSS)

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • CyVerse’s workshop series on collaborative open science using cutting-edge, open source cyberinfrastructure, in a collaborative, hands-on setting

Developing the Data Science Classroom

RStudio::conf(2022)

N/A

2022

  • Workshop that equipped educators with a pedagogical approach to utiluzing R and RStudio for teaching in a data science classroom setting.

Basic & Advanced Container Camp

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2022

  • CyVerse’s Basics and Advanced workshops on container technologies which emphasized sharing, scaling, and reusing tools and workflows for all types of computational analyses

Data-driven Ecological Synthesis 2018

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Canada

2018

  • Week-long course towards applying the R programming language to answer a diversity of biological questions

Intro to Modeling in Biology (ECOL 519)

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

2017

  • Exploring the role of biological modeling with hands-on examples in Mathematica

Published Teaching Curriculum

Data7 EDA in R Workshop Series

Zenodo

N/A

2022

Data7 KEYS Internship Open Science Materials

Zenodo

N/A

2022

  • Compantion Quarto presentations and R Markdown for my KEYS internship open science curriculum

Published Research Compendium

AntColonyPerformance

Zenodo

N/A

2022

  • GitHub repository for a research compendium to reproduce in preparation research

NestArchOrg

Zenodo

N/A

2022

HumidityProject

Zenodo

N/A

2022

Published Research

Temnothorax rugatulus ants do not change their nest walls in response to environmental humidity

bioRxiv Preprint

N/A

2022

  • Coauthored with Faron W., and Dornhaus A.

A hymenopteran odorant alerts flies to bury eggs

bioRxiv Preprint

N/A

2021

  • Coauthored with Davis, S. M., Maurer, M. M., Trejo, J. E., Garcia, R. J., & Schlenke, T. A.

ABCTracker: an easy-to-use, cloud-based application for tracking multiple objects

arXiv Preprint

N/A

2020

  • Coauthored with Rice, L., Tate, S., Farynyk, D., Sun, J., Charbonneau, D., … & Shin, M. C.

Intraindividual behavioral variability predicts foraging outcome in a beach-dwelling jumping spider

Scientific reports

N/A

2017

  • Coauthored with Lichenstein, J.L.L, Pruitt J.N.

Published Datasets

Data repository for DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.30.498314

Zenodo

N/A

2022

  • Nest shape influences colony organization in ants: spatial distribution and connectedness of colony members differs from that predicted by random movement and is affected by nest space (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6784395

Data repository for DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.30.498314

Zenodo

N/A

2022

Outreach and Service

Industry Careers in Data Science Speaker Series

University of Arizona

N/A

2022

  • Developed and hosted a speaker series that focused on academics that transitioned to industry careers in data science

RStudio Connect Landing Page

University of Arizona

N/A

2022

  • Built a launch page with interactive user metrics and monthly project highlights
  • Expected completion: October, 2022

ResBaz Arizona 2022

University of Arizona

N/A

2022

  • Co-chair of ResBaz AZ 2022 organizational committee

Insect Discovery Website

University of Arizona

N/A

2022

  • Designed content for the Insect Discovery website, hosted by the UArizona Extension Program

Invited Talks

How nest shapes can influence colony level organization

Small intercontinental lab meet-up on colony organization and nest architecture in social insects

N/A

2021

Nest architecture may influence ants the same was buildings influence humans

Advances in Complex Systems: From Ecology to Economics - Lake Como School of Adv. Studies

N/A

2019

The influence of nest architecture on colony level organization in ants

UArizona SIAM Seminar series

N/A

2019

Selected Awards

Carruth Award for Graduate Student Excellence

$500

N/A

2021

GIDP - EIS Program Education Award

$250

N/A

2020

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Award Accepted

$300,000

N/A

2019

References

Anna Dornhaus (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Professor
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • The University of Arizona

Jeffrey Oliver (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Data Science Specialist
  • University Libraries
  • The University of Arizona

Maliaca Oxnam (M.A.)

N/A

N/A

  • Deputy Director
  • Data Science Institute
  • The University of Arizona

Nirav Merchant (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Director/Co-PI
  • Data Science Institute/CyVerse
  • The University of Arizona